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The 1910'S Ax Murders an Overview of the Crimes and the Mcclaughry The 1910’s Ax Murders An overview of the crimes and the McClaughry theory Beth H. Klingensmith HI815XA – Research Seminar: 20 th Century Topics Professor Schneider Emporia State University July, 2006 1 From 1911 - 1912, the American Midwest was plagued by a very specific type of crime, the mass homicide of entire small town families by an unknown assailant or assailants using an ax. Of the approximately fifteen different crimes, six of them had enough similar characteristics to prompt the press and Department of Justice Special Agent M.W. McClaughry to theorize that one man was responsible for all the crimes, covering more than twenty-five murders. This paper gives the reader an overview of the crimes linked together by the McClaughry theory, crimes that were similar in nature yet were not included in his theory, and the suspected killer, with a discussion of the viability of the proposition. The popular term “mass homicide” defines a situation involving more than three murders by a single person or group of people. A “spree killer” murders several people in a short period of time, such as the Columbine High School gunmen from Littleton, Colorado in 1999. The serial killer murders several victims in separate events over a period of time, sometimes waiting months or years to strike again. This distinction between spree and serial killers is based on the timing of the crimes rather than motive or other factors. 1 Were the Midwest ax murders a product of a roaming serial killer, or a random series of spree killings that shared eerily similar traits? In the latter half of the twentieth century, serial murder seemed to be a phenomenon, a new type of American crime credited to changes in our society such as drug abuse, poverty, and pornography. However, historical studies have shown that serial murder was not a rarity during earlier times in America. Phillip Jenkins, in his article, “Serial Murder in the United States 1900 – 1940: A Historical Perspective” argues that it is a lack of research on early twentieth century homicide that makes it appear the 2 crime of serial murder to be a recent one, and that it has been a notable part of the American psyche since the 1888-1889 London “Jack the Ripper” case. 2 Police work in 1911 - 1914 was not as sophisticated as it is today. As most of the ax murders detailed show, crime scene management in the time period was non-existent. As soon as word was public that a murder had occurred, citizens congregated at the location, milling through the scene, destroying or even stealing evidence. 3 Bloodhounds were often used to track killers. Authorities in small towns were not trained in the methods of the day and experts needed to be brought in; sometimes days after the crime had occurred. The two main identification systems used by law enforcement were the Bertillon system and fingerprinting. The Bertillon system had been used since the late 19 th century and measured skeletal structure (such as finger length) to produce a result that uniquely identified a person. In the early 1900’s, the new technique of fingerprinting was introduced to America’s police forces and supplanted the Bertillon system because it was more accurate. A central repository for fingerprint records was not established until 1905, and the Bertillon method was still being widely used in the early 1910’s. Common thought is that early serial killers did not have easy means of transportation to travel to find victims and police forces across jurisdictions were too unsophisticated and uncommunicative to determine a pattern if one were to present itself. Both of these suppositions are disputed by Jenkins’ research. In fact, Jenkins posits that police actively sought to link unsolved crimes from other locales and “the early twentieth-century experience suggests that the “roaming” killer is by no means a recent innovation and that police agencies have long been capable of dealing with this type.” 4 3 As this paper details, the press was also quick to try to link crimes together, sometimes blurring facts in order to make supposed connections seem stronger. McClaughry and his theory Matthew Wilson “M.W.” McClaughry was familiar with the last stop of the criminal justice system, being the son of the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary warden and the brother of the Iowa State Reformatory warden. Starting his career as a records clerk at Leavenworth, McClaughry led the United States Department of Justice’s Bureau of Criminal Identification when it moved to the Penitentiary in 1907 to serve as the nation’s central repository for fingerprints. He was named a Special Agent of the Department of Justice, the forerunner of today’s Federal Bureau of Investigation. McClaughry studied the Bertillon system under its creator in France and learned the fingerprinting system at Scotland Yard. 5 The six crimes that comprise the McClaughry theory started in Colorado Springs, Colorado in September, 1911, continued with two incidents in October, 1911 at Monmouth, Illinois and Ellsworth, Kansas, another two incidents in June, 1912 at Paola, Kansas and Villisca, Iowa, and culminated in the murder of two elderly widows in Columbia, Missouri on December 17, 1912. The Columbia victims were Mary J. Wilson and her daughter, Georgia Moore. Henry Lee Moore, son and grandson of the women, was convicted of the Missouri crime and sent to prison in March, 1913. In May, 1913, McClaughry, who had assisted authorities in Villisca, theorized that Moore was responsible for all six crimes due to the similar circumstances of each crime and statements Moore made at his trial. McClaughry pointed out that the crimes started after Moore’s release from the Kansas Reformatory at Hutchinson in 1911 and stopped after 4 his imprisonment in Missouri. Henry Lee Moore, from prison, denied any involvement in the crimes. Major newspapers throughout the country, including the New York Times (which got most of the details concerning dates and names wrong) ran the story with the accusation prominently, some with a picture of Moore. (Figure 1) Figure 1. – Henry Lee Moore, Denver Post, May 10, 1913, 10. 5 The arrest of Moore and the publication of the theory did not clear the other five crimes. Four were never officially solved. However, the theory alone was enough to give Moore a notice in the 2000 publication The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, an entire article in the 1990 book Hunting Humans (both written by Michael Newton) and mention as a suspect in the 2004 documentary Villisca, Living With a Mystery by Kelly and Tammy Rundle. How did McClaughry find out about Henry Lee Moore? The Newton book Hunting Humans gives credit to his father, the warden at Leavenworth, who heard about Moore and the Columbia crime through his contacts in the penal system. Newton then states that “comparison of modus operandi in the several cases, capped by interviews with Moore” prompted publication of the theory. 6 In actuality, Columbia officials sent an inquiry to the Leavenworth bureau office in December, 1912 and received a letter back from McClaughry confirming that Moore had spent time in the Kansas Reformatory and describing the similar crimes which had taken place throughout the country. 7 The crimes Colorado Springs, Colorado: September 17, 1911 – 6 victims In 1911, Colorado Springs, Colorado was a bustling resort city of approximately 45,000 people, many of whom had moved to the area to live at one of the tuberculosis sanatoriums in the Pikes Peak region. The area’s dry climate and altitude was promoted throughout the country as a cure for the disease. Arthur J. Burnham was one of those men. He was afflicted with the disease and lived and worked on the grounds of the Modern Woodmen sanatorium while his wife Alice and two children lived in a small home in the city. On Wednesday afternoon, September 20, 1911, Mrs. Burnham’s sister 6 and another woman went to check on the welfare of the family after not having heard from them in a couple of days and discovered the bodies of the woman and her two children after opening the locked house. Medical personnel surmised the three had been killed by the blows of an ax sometime during the previous Sunday evening, the last night they were seen. As news of the crime spread, neighbors noticed that there had been no recent activity at an adjacent house occupied by Henry F. Wayne, his wife, and baby daughter. Entrance was gained into the Wayne house to reveal the same scene: three more victims in bed with skulls crushed. Henry Wayne had lived at the Modern Woodman sanatorium before sending for his wife and child from Indiana. Arthur Burnham befriended Wayne and told him of the availability of the home adjacent to his. It was thought Wayne had no enemies in the city as he and his family had only been in Colorado Springs for a couple of weeks. Crowds gathered immediately at the crime scene as people who knew the families discussed possibilities. Neither home had been burglarized and the doors of both residences were locked with the blinds drawn. Bed clothes had been heaped upon the bodies in both residences and the killer had stopped to wash his hands and wipe ink that he had spilled on his entrance to the Burnham house. The blood-stained ax was found at the crime scene. There seemed to be no motive and the small houses were well within walking distance of the railroad tracks. The suspicions of the local authorities immediately centered on the sole survivor of the families: Arthur J. Burnham.
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